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A bicycle that adopted a sidecar and started charging tourists for nostalgia.
means A three-wheeled, pedal-powered passenger vehicle — basically a bicycle rickshaw with a sidecar seat bolted on.
from A 20th-century blend word: 'tri-' (three, from Greek/Latin) stitched onto 'rickshaw,' itself from Japanese jinrikisha — jin (person) + riki (power) + sha (vehicle), literally 'human-powered vehicle.' The trishaw arrived as rickshaws got a wheel and a pedal-crank upgrade across parts of Asia in the 1900s, trading human legs doing the pulling for human legs doing the pedaling.
- origin
- Rickshaw plus tricycle, colonial-era Asia
- seating
- Passenger sits in front, pedaler steers blind
- status today
- Singapore kept it as a heritage photo prop
- trust exercise
- You cannot see the driver's face while moving